Sentence examples for slight contempt from inspiring English sources
He felt the edge of Balanchine's "slight contempt"; he dreamed of "Balanchine a murderer; myself shipwrecked".
And the author is dismissed, even perhaps with a slight contempt - and only the work remains, alone now with this reader who has to take over.
Nor does Mr. Bell show the slightest contempt for a work he has been performing in public for decades, and recorded twice — so far.
He has a permanent slight smirk that seems to conceal sheer contempt for whoever he's speaking to, and tries to act like a hardman in the same way a PE teacher who is a little bit scared of the sixth formers does.
In the e-mails that went public last week when the scandal broke, the tone of Christie's aides and appointees displays the thuggery and overweening arrogance that were characteristic of Nixon's men when the President was at the height of his popularity — utter contempt for opponents, not the slightest anxiety about getting caught.
Contempt replaces community.
"Success breeds contempt.
Eventually contempt was bred.
